I’d like to invite you to try out a new site for riders that I’ve been designing and building with 2 software developers, BikeMinds. We’re creating a set of online tools to connect riders based on the types of riding you’re into or the bike you ride. The basic features are a sort of “show and tell” of bikes- A way to share your favorite ride photos, your bike(s), and anything you’ve done to customize them. You can follow your friends and riders or bikes that interest you. It’s free and open to all motorcyclists.

For those of you with a bike list signature, we have included a forum signature tool which makes it easy to create a custom signature with links to your bike profiles. Once you’ve set up your bike profiles you can quickly create a signature giving others a way to see the bikes rather than just a static list. (see mine at the bottom of the post)

Of course, each of you that use the signature tool extends our marketing efforts a little. In the interest of transparency, we want to give back for that and support this great community. So, for each person that creates a profile and uses the signature tool we'll donate $10 to AdvRider! To sweeten the deal for you high milage users, we'll add $10 for every 5000 posts on your oddometer. (e.g. $10 for anyone that uses it, users with 5k+= $20, $10k plus= $30, etc.)

An example of one of my bike profiles:

and my rider profile with the signature tool link:

We are just getting started with BikeMinds. The long-term plan is a complete set of online tools and social features for riders. Now that we have the foundation in place we’re rolling out new features regularly. Join us and help shape the platform.

Last, we value user feedback to help improve the platform. We'll send a BikeMinds swag pack which includes a rider wallet to any inmates that join BikeMinds, test it out a bit, and send us some feedback. Looking forward to seeing you on BikeMinds and hearing your thoughts!

Cheers,
Malcolm

A few questions have come up about the process of transferring the signature you create over here to ADVRider so I created a little step-by-step helper...

I like it!
Working on adding my bikes. One issue I ran into is it wouldn't save after I did everything. Ended up having to start over, put in the required info then saved, verified it saved, added picture, saved, etc... Did this multiple times. (Ubuntu with Chromium, will check Windows machine at work tomorrow)

I like it!
Working on adding my bikes. One issue I ran into is it wouldn't save after I did everything. Ended up having to start over, put in the required info then saved, verified it saved, added picture, saved, etc... Did this multiple times. (Ubuntu with Chromium, will check Windows machine at work tomorrow)

We changed things up a bit and added donations to ADVR for anyone using the signature tool(edited the original post). Credit for the idea goes to my friend Jesse(Wiseblood). I hope you guys like it and we can raise some significant money for the forum!

Also, a big thanks to the new users that recently signed up on BikeMinds